Here is a fun vintage magazine advertisement for a Columbia bicycle. The ad claims the bicycle is easy to learn to ride and that an ordinary rider can go more miles in a day over common roads than a horse. Great images for your steampunk or mixed media projects! I scanned the original ad from…
Archives for July 3, 2014
Old Fashioned Tent
This vintage catalogue advertisement includes an outdoor image of a wedge tent tied with a rope to two tall trees. The ad pitches these features: No poles required. Easy to carry about and can be stretched up between two trees or forked sticks. The tent was available in three sizes at prices ranging from $6.05 – $8.96. The ad…
Fairies Flowers and Bees
This vintage storybook image includes two fairies playing on flowers as three bumblebees fly by. The image is from A Round Robin, by M. A. Hoyer and Robert Ellice Mack, illustrated by Harriett M. Bennett, circa 1891. Click on image to enlarge.
